Word: crisp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Keep It Crisp. "I didn't know how to draw women at first," Caniff, admittedly no anatomist, recalls. "Women are always harder to draw than men. And there's the nudity problem . . . you just have to know how much is in good taste. Once in a while, if I hadn't had a good-looking babe in the strip for a while, Patterson would send me a note saying how about bringing in the Dragon Lady or some other chick. And he used to hate it when the balloons were too long. ... I didn't agree...
...Cambridge (Mass.). He studied at Cambridge (England), and was ordained in time to serve as a chaplain in World War I. After the war he returned to Episcopal Theological School, where for 19 years he taught New Testament and Christian social ethics, built a reputation for encyclopedic knowledge and crisp, closely reasoned lectures...
Winters' comparisons of Robinson with other poets are crisp, e.g., "[Thomas] Hardy describes the natural landscape in detail and implies the human tragedy. Robinson analyzes the tragedy and implies the landscape. . . ." The chief fault of this book is that poems are cited, not quoted, and the reader has to have Robinson's Collected Poems beside him to follow the criticism. But that may not be a bad idea...
...evening was clear and crisp. A Universal Airline's DC-3, carrying a score of Puerto Ricans home from New York for Christmas, was sailing smoothly southward over Maryland at its assigned 2,000 ft. Its blinking white, red & green lights were visible for nearly eight miles. There was nothing ahead...
...liked Canada's unrationed clothing and the crisp climate, had disliked her French Canadian in-laws mainly because father-in-law "would sit there and spit through his teeth at the fire. Well, maybe you've got to spit some time, but not through your teeth-and not all the time...